Election Day arrives - but more than 600K Utahns already have voted

The report blamed contractor Insight; the contractor turned in its own report, blaming county election workers for not knowing what they were doing.

"It works because people tend to remember negatives more than they remember positives". After the ballots are logged in, the signatures on the envelopes are validated not by computers, but people.

Legal advocates at this nonpartisan nonprofit say the nationwide call volume is a telltale sign of just how much more complicated and confusing voting has become since dozens of states enacted new restrictions after the last midterms.

Tyler County reported 777 residents early voted there by 4 p.m. Saturday. A polling place at the Westside Church of Christ on Stockdale Highway gave out the wrong ballots for about 45 minutes Tuesday morning.

"It's enormous, absolutely", Hodson said. In the last midterm, in 2014, that number was around 338,000.

"I had a little bit of money in my budget and made a decision to buy the stickers to help people get excited about voting", she said.

He added: "Voting should not be this hard", and said he was "proud" of his "neighbors around the five boroughs who are voting today in what looks like huge numbers".

The two observers will be making sure the state is complying with the law, and if there are any issues, that those can be fixed as quickly as possible, making it easier for voters during election day.

The exemptions are rarely used, election officials tell us, but they were touted on the front page of The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper this election day ... When all the ballots come, in they predict the number to be around 70 precent.

Cite any of these "acceptable" excuses and your ballot counts ...

For example, Salt Lake County has 43 Election Day voting centers and 20 other ballot drop boxes.

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